Soft City Design Facilitates Neighbourhoods Built on Relationships

Great article from Fast Company magazine that provides insights on the idea of a 'soft city' and how urban design can facilitate a neighborhood built on relationships! Good cities are ones that make these connections possible. They can look different and exist in different contexts, but they share an overarching and essential quality, which the author calls “softness”—a stark contrast to the rhetoric of “grind” and “harshness” that’s often applied to urban life .